Tool for removing container caps



May 18, 1948. H. ALBERT TOOL FOR REMOVING CONTAINER CAPS Filed Nov. 10, 1944 INVENTOVR. HENRY ALBERT ATTORNEY Patented May 18, 1948 UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE TOOL FOR REMOVING CONTAINER CAPS Henry Albert, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Application November 10, 1944, Serial No. 562,784

1 Claim. 1 This invention relates to bottle, jar, or like container cap' removing tools or devices, and aims to provide a novel, practical and efficient device which is readily adaptable to'loosen such caps over a substantially wide range of cap diameters.

The above as well as additional and more specific objects will become apparent in the following description, wherein like characters of reference refer to like-named parts shown on the accompanying drawings. It is to be noted that the drawings are intended for the purpose of illustration, and that it is neither desired nor intended to limit the invention necessarily to the specific details of construction shown excepting insofar as they may be deemed essential to the invention.

Referring briefly to the drawings, Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the device applied to a bottle cap, the bottle and cap being shown in broken lines.

Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of the tool showing it applied to a bottle or jar cap of relatively large diameter.

Fig. 3 is a left-hand end view of Fig. 2.

Referring in detail to the drawings, the numeral Ill indicates one and the numeral l i the other of a pair of substantially S-shaped mutually hinged or pivoted arms having at the opposite ends of the arms extensions l2 and I3. On the latter are mounted a pair of complementary jaws I4 and I 5.

The jaws l4 and I5 comprise flat, co-planar upper members or surfaces I6, substantially triangular in outline, with their mutually opposed edges cut away and rounded out concavely and, moreover, provided with serrations or teeth I1. It is to be noted that these concave toothed edges I! provide a pair of opposed toothed jaws.

Each member l6 has a downwardly extending apron [9 extending from its two opposed edges l8. Each apron I9 is provided with step-like cut-outs to provide a stair-like series of jaw teeth 28, 2|, and 22 in a downward and outward direction. The teeth 20, 2| and 22 are all of the same depth, so that all of the teeth 20 may be said to lie in the same plane, and likewise all of the teeth 2| lie in a common but lower plane, and all of the teeth 22 lie in another common but still lower plane.

When the tool is used to remove or loosen a screw cap of relatively small diameter, it is applied so as to grip the cap, shown at 23, between the serrated concave jaws l1. Pressure upon the handle ends of the arms l0 and II will then 2 obviously tighten these jaws securely about the cap 23 so that it may be readily loosened.

For caps of larger diameter, such as that shown at 24 the device is applied so as to grip the cap between the four teeth 22 as shown in Fig. 3, or, if the cap were of smaller diameter than the cap 24, between the four teeth 2| or the four teeth 26. Thus it is apparent that the tool is readily adaptable to tightly grip bottle caps whose diameters vary between that of a small cap such as shown at 23 and that of a large cap such as that shown at 24.

The construction of the tool is such that it is sturdy and yet inexpensive in cost of manufacture.

Obviously, modifications in form and structure may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

I claim:

A container cap tool comprising a pair of mu tually pivoted arms having handle grips at one end and extensions at the other end, said extensions having complementary substantially isosceles trapezoidal fiat members secured thereto and lying in the same plane with the nonparallel side edges of said members converging toward one another, aprons extending downwardly from said converging side edges and at right angles to said plane, the opposed free edges of said aprons having step-like cut-outs of sub stantially the same size therein to provide inverted step-like teeth of substantially the same size thereon, the above arrangement providing series of opposed step-like teeth which have their horizontal edges at different levels and their vertical gripping edges on each level spaced apart different distances, whereby container caps of difierent diameters can be selectively applied or removed.

HENRY ALBERT.

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